Seniors' Afternoon Tea

Got a invite from our outgoing Bruce member to attend a Seniors' Afternoon Tea at the Brandon Park Community Centre - to meet the new guy. Well...never got to meet the old one because he spent to much time down the other end, but we did meet the new guy - a bit of a dud. Anyway...had some nice egg sandwiches with a coffee.

Case for Lenovo 10” tablet

Mail delivery today from China, a case for the Lenovo Yoga tablet which cost $9.39 inc delivery - thanks to the older kid for the eBay order.

Misty to the vet

The old girl limping on her left leg and something wrong with her middle toe – I think it’s broken. Vet diagnosed the problem before I even put her on the table as toe constriction and with another feel a broken toe.

It’s like a scabby growth band that constricts the toe and when picked off you are down to the bone. She now has a cotton bud splint, well bandaged and on pain killer medication for a couple of weeks.

Misty to the vet – continued

Waiting for Luna to move

House cleaning done and floors dry so everything can be put down again except one chair.

New coat for Pixie

Internet outage

 

BigPond cable outage - went to bed with no internet and Telstra tech visit booked this morning 8 - 12. Holly woke me before 8.0 but took no notice until alarm went off at 8.15. Better get moving, noticed modem lights were normal so logged into router and everything looks OK. Better click the SMS link on the phone to notify callback for support lady to phone me back - to cancel the booking. While chatting to her checked service status and yes there was another (unrelated to yesterday) overnight 3150 outage that was restored at 7.35am this morning - wow.

Food labeling - what a joke

Things are bad enough now with everyone using New Zealand as a back door, that Honey label is a bloody insult.

Bond Telescopic Tree Pole Pruner 2.4m

After Bunnings went across the road to Masters, something we won't be doing in the near future - cos it's won't be there. Checking out with a few items and noticed on my left a box of tree pruners @ $29. Hey that's a good price and it looks to have a more refined cutter mechanism that the ALDI one I have for around the same price – so got one.

Visit to older daughter’s place

First visit after the move last weekend with some garden tools in the boot to tend to the veggie patches. Not really my cup of tea but managed to be useful pulling out corn clumps and miscellaneous weeding tasks. Oh...and both ET and I ended up stepping on dog poop.

Free range eggs – dodgy companies

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took Derodi Pty Ltd and Holland Farms Pty Ltd to court, claiming it had falsely labelled eggs as free range from January 2012 to December 2014.

The two companies trade together as the entity Free Range Egg Farms, and sold eggs under the labels Ecoeggs, and Port Stephens and Field Fresh free range eggs.

We have Presto again

We have Presto again - last year we had it for 6 months free but it was pretty ho-hum so pulled out in the last month.

T-box channel 911 is promoting the 6 month free trial again so tried to take up the offer (again) but the promo code was rejected - fair enough.

Anyway...ET getting pretty sick of FTA rubbish so signed up using her e-mail to get the one month free trial. Already setup T-box's in lounge and balcony - and Lenovo 10" tablet.

Oh...and another slot reserved for one of the kids.

Knox Tavern for dinner

Booked in tonight to try out the 'new KT', haven't been there since it burnt down in Sep 2014.

Dell Ultrasharp 1702FP 17" LCD monitor

No picture and LED's flashing like fairy lights

When I was doing the Dell GX270 memory upgrade went off looking for one of my spare monitors and grabbed the above which was working fine last time I used it but that's a few years ago now. After connecting the external 12V/3A power supply turned on at the power point and the three front panel LED's came on like fairy lights - not good.

 

Early 2000 but still a nice monitor...even has DVI !!!

Recovering today…a few aches.

Recovery session from yesterday's house move must be coming along OK as I just finished trimming and mowing - front & back. The Bunnings XU1 18V blade trimmer and blower work really well  - time for a cuppa.

Exciting day for our older daughter

Back home after helping our older daughter move from Skye to her new home in Botanic Ridge. Loading up was OK but unloading at the new place and the trudge up the 'mountain goat' driveway pretty much drained the last of our physical reserves, in particular two items - fridge and mattress.

Presto entertainment

We have Presto again - last year we had it for 6 months free but it was pretty ho-hum so pulled out in the last month. T-box channel 911 is promoting the 6 month free trial again so tried to take up the offer (again) but the promo code was rejected - fair enough. Anyway...ET getting pretty sick of FTA rubbish so signed up using her e-mail to get the one month free trial. Already setup T-box's in lounge and balcony and Lenovo 10" tablet.

Samsung Galaxy Note factory reset - continued

From my previous post decided to do a factory reset, running out of storage and went through all the usual stuff like *#9900# to clear the log/cat files etc which previously worked well - but not this time - and I don't want to root the thing to get to other stuff like lost/found. Did a Kies restore which went well and then off to Play Store to see (and this time short list) what apps I want back on the phone. We are done with the rebuild and now have 830MB free storage

Samsung Galaxy Note - factory reset

Some jobs are best left for a rainy day like doing a clean install on a Windows PC, or giving your workshop a good vacuum - or factory resetting your phone.